Romances-Narrative songs
We distinguish lyrical song (brief, noncomplex and that does not express developed arguments, but simple and concise feelingsand emotions) and narrative song. The latter is an extensive and comlex song that develops full arguments, following the structure of narrative discourse: initial situation, conflict, evolution of the conflict, resolution and final situation. In Hispanic tradition, when a narrative song has octosyllable verses and a regular assonant rhyme every second verse, it is called romance, which is the indigenous parallel of the Pan-European ballad. When a narrative song does not have this meter and its structure is composed in stanzas and polyassonant, it constitutes a truely narrative song. Lastly, the epic song no longer found in present oral genres. In Spain and in general in the whole of Europe, the epic song was a typical medieval genre. Therefore, in this section of the Archive we will distinguish romances and narrative songs in which we include balads too.
- Descarga PDF1 El género del Romancero
- Descarga PDF2 La balada vasca
- Descarga PDF3 Romances y canciones narrativas en Navarra
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